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  •  NDP Would Be Beyond Center Left Down Here (7+ / 0-)

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    grndrush, Mikecan1978, SaraBeth, FrankFrink, Youffraita, little liberal, Guy Incognito

    wouldn't you think?

    Nothing resembling real left is visible in the US to anyone but academics, politics junkies and Fatherland Security.

    We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy.... --ML King "Beyond Vietnam"

    by Gooserock on Mon Feb 04, 2008 at 08:56:28 AM PDT

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    •  Thats what I was thinking (3+ / 0-)

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      TexMex, SaraBeth, little liberal

      The Liberals are actually further left then the democrats for most issues....Gay Marriage universal Health Care etc etc.

      The NDP are much further left then Democrats..

      The Conservatives funny enough have 2 wings one looks like a conservative Democrat or Liberal Republican (Snowe)The other wing look alot like Bush:)

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      by Mikecan1978 on Mon Feb 04, 2008 at 08:59:29 AM PDT

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      •  British take (1+ / 0-)

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        little liberal

        From a British (and I suspect Western European) perspective the Canadian political system is skewed to the right - just not so much as in the United States.

        From where I stand the Harper ex-Reform wing of the Conservatives are far right, the ex-Progressive Conservatives and the Liberals are centre-right and the NDP is centre-left.

        Of course the British political system has also skewed right in the last generation, but I am old enough to remember when the Laboue Party was at least semi-socialist.

        There is no man alive who is sufficiently good to rule the life of the man next door to him. Sir Rhys Hopkin Morris, M.P.

        by Gary J on Mon Feb 04, 2008 at 10:02:13 AM PDT

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    •  This American, who's resided in Canada (3+ / 0-)

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      ClaudeB, Mikecan1978, FrankFrink

      for 8 years now, has said for a while that Canada is a far more liberal country under Harper than the US was under Bill Clinton.

      There are a lot of Canadian RESIDENTS who'll be voting, since we're US citizens - and I assure you, 80%+ of them will be voting Democratic (or further left). Collectively, we're the equivalent of a small state (over 687,000 total residents, most, like me, in southern Ontario) - and bluer than any state in the US.

      There's really no reason for a true GOPer to reside in Ontario, at least - too many daily "irritants", LMAO.

      "See you at the debates, bitches..." -- Paris Hilton

      by grndrush on Mon Feb 04, 2008 at 10:35:04 AM PDT

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